Hello everyone! We will be holding an Avatar Item Design contest for the 2023 Summer Festival! Please make sure to read the rules carefully!


Contest Rules

1. Design Avatar Items for this Festival. Please use the provided bases to draw your designs on.

Male Avatar Base
Female Avatar Base

The following can be included all in one entry for Avatars:

1-3 Avatar Held Items
1 Avatar Outfit Item (Male and Female options allowed)
1-3 Avatar Head Item
1 Avatar Cloak Item
1 Avatar Accessory Item
1 Avatar Tail Item
1 Avatar Wings Item
1-2 Avatar Aspect Items
1 Avatar Background Item

2. You must draw your new Items on the provided Avatar bases. If you feel that your drawing skills aren't great, then you can include a description in addition to your drawing in order to help us better envision your Items. If you are unable to draw something, then we are sorry, but there will be no exceptions. Your submission must look like it required some amount of effort to create. For example, drawing a few straight lines on a canvas and saying that they're "armor" will not count towards participation.

3. Avatar Items submitted must be Themed to this Festival. This means that it can be anything related to the season, such as any holidays that occur within the season, weather, etc.

4. Please do not reserve posts. If you reserve a post, we will delete your post.

5. Please do not Ping me with your submission. Please only Ping me if you have a question.

6. Before submitting your entry, please make sure to scan the thread to see if someone else has already done something similar. Try to make your entry unique and if someone has already done something that you were wanting to do, then we highly suggest that you pick something different. If you feel that someone has "copied" your design, please do not say anything to that person - especially in this thread. We will intervene ourselves if we see something that's suspicious.

7. You may only submit ONE official entry for the Items listed above. If you wish to submit more, then you can send me a PM with drawings of your ideas. However, all PM'd entries that are sent to me will not count for prizes.

8. IMPORTANT: By participating in this contest and submitting your designs to us, you agree that we, Sylestia Games LLC, will retain full rights to your submission to use as we see fit for the purposes of Sylestia.com and Sylestia Games LLC. You will not receive any royalties or reimbursement from us if we decide to use your designs, or otherwise. Any designs that we pick will be recreated from scratch by our art team; we will only be using your submission as a reference for said artwork. We reserve the right to alter your design in any way that we see fit and are not obligated to adhere to any specific depictions or descriptions that are provided.

9. DO NOT comment on someone's entry unless you have something nice to say. If someone copies your entry, then have faith in us that we will determine the correct winner. Please do not fight over entries. If we see anyone doing this in the thread, then whoever is fighting will be disqualified and potentially receive a Forum Strike.

10. The end date is July 2nd, 2023 at 11:59 PM server. After that, there is no guarantee that we will see your entry and the thread will be locked once designs are picked.


Important Copyright Infringement Notice

We are very aware that it's typical to use Google and/or other providers to search for ideas when designing artwork. However, it is extremely important that all of your submissions are created entirely by you and are not copied from another's work. If you are using other artwork as a reference, please ensure that your submission is changed sufficiently to be clear and obvious that it is indeed your work. This is extremely important, not just for ethical reasons, but also for legal reasons when we are implementing something onto our site. Thank you!


Contest Prizes

The following are scheduled to be the prizes for this contest. Please note, these are subject to change. However, we would not do so without a good reason to change them.

Winners
(Players who have their designs picked)
Prizes: [Peerless Avatar Token] x1, 3-Visible Summer Festival Themed Pet of Choice (2-Visible if Majestic) x1, Re-Colorable Avatar Items of Winner's Entries if applicable, Pre-Colored Avatar Item Set of Choice of Winner's Entries if applicable

All Participants
(With valid entries)
Prizes: [Fabled Sculpting Catalyst] x1, [Mystery Sculpting Catalyst] x2, [Premium Clam] x3, [Box of Sculpting Supplies] x1, [Box of Sculpting Agents] x2, [Legendary Avatar Item (Summer - Retired)] x1, [Sun Token] x1,000

wow, the lineart and colors are so pretty!

Will there be a pet trait design contest this festival? There wasn't one for spring fest so I figured I would ask.

This is the Marshwarden set! Inspired by the swampy shores of eastern North America, this draws on marsh birds and the old military position of marchwarden. I've actually designed and colored four sets for each gender already.

The held is the [Marshwarden's Swampy Sentinel (Blue Heron)]. Head is [Marshwarden's Helm (Long-Blue Heron)], and outfit is [Marshwarden's Uniform (Blue Heron)]. Cloak is [Marshwarden's Cape (Blue Heron)] and the wings are [Marshwarden's Wings (Blue Heron)].


The held is the [Marshwarden's Swampy Sentinel (Great Egret)]. Head is [Marshwarden's Helm (Short-Great Egret)], and outfit is [Marshwarden's Uniform (Great Egret)]. Cloak is [Marshwarden's Cape (Great Egret)] and the wings are [Marshwarden's Wings (Great Egret)].


The held is the [Marshwarden's Swampy Sentinel (Green Heron)]. Head is [Marshwarden's Helm (Long-Green Heron)], and outfit is [Marshwarden's Uniform (Green Heron)]. Cloak is [Marshwarden's Cape (Green Heron)] and the wings are [Marshwarden's Wings (Green Heron)].


The held is the [Marshwarden's Swampy Sentinel (Rosy Spoonbill)]. Head is [Marshwarden's Helm (Short-Rosy Spoonbill)], and outfit is [Marshwarden's Uniform (Rosy Spoonbill)]. Cloak is [Marshwarden's Cape (Rosy Spoonbill)] and the wings are [Marshwarden's Wings (Rosy Spoonbill)].


Here I've tried to give samples of some mix-and-match that could be done. I actually went out and drew male and female versions for each color set on different layers so I can just kinda switch them out, lol.

The held is actually the alternate held that I designed- I figure it can match the metal colors on the Uniforms. I've named it [Marshwarden's Billhook]. Head is [Marshwarden's Helm (Short-Blue Heron)], and outfit is [Marshwarden's Uniform (Green Heron)]. Cloak is [Marshwarden's Cape (Rosy Spoonbill)] and the wings are [Marshwarden's Wings (Great Egret)].

Dancing Pheasant Costume

Peacock

Golden


I wanted to include a large fancy tail and/or wings but it didn't work out.

Here is my avatar! Summer reminds me of Coachella so my avatar is heavily inspired by Coachella outfits which I came across on social media.





Components:
Outfit
- Rainbow Tinseled Dress with Cowboy Boots

Head
-Flower Sunglasses
-Rainbow Space Buns with Hair Gems

Held
-Stripe drink cup

Wings
-Elf Wings (?) not sure what is this called but I was attempting to recreate this

Lemon themed outfits because I like lemons.

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=106295&page=1#4 Author: WoermOnAString Time Posted: 6/12/2023 at 5:33 PM Will there be a pet trait design contest this festival? There wasn't one for spring fest so I figured I would ask.

Not for this Festival, no. We may bring it back for Fall.

We've had such a big backlog for Pet Traits that it was getting to the point of us barely using any new submissions and we were feeling bad that people were participating and then we'd end up using virtually none of the submissions. So until we can get caught up and get back to where we can actually implement suggestions, we don't want to post anymore of those contests.

"Celestial Sea" avatar set.

Head: Celestial Sea Tiara
Outfit: Celestial Sea Garb
Held: Celestial Sea Companion (I know the fish with tails like that tend to be bettas, which are freshwater...but I at least based the coloring on a fish called the Saltwater betta. Which isn't related to the freshwater betta. But whatever. It's a fantasy fish. XD)
Cloak: Celestial Sea Spray
Aspect: Celestial Sea Serpent (it doesn't show up that well, I just noticed...but it's there.)
Background: Celestial Sea

Here's the background on its own:



"Sunset Sea" color:


Male version in Dawn Sea color: